For decades, residents of Artsvanik have lived in the shadow of Armenia’s largest tailings dam. As the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine plans to expand the facility, the village continues to lose farmland and livelihoods. Through the lives and stories of its residents, Gayane Ghazaryan’s photo essay documents the human cost of mining and the promises of economic growth that have left communities behind.
At the UN General Assembly, Armenia and Azerbaijan presented two visions of a changing regional order. Sossi Tatikyan examines their approaches to multilateralism, foreign policy, peace, connectivity and the conflict’s legacy, highlighting growing convergence alongside persistent differences in how the two countries frame the future.
As Armenia weighs its next nuclear reactor, the debate is about more than Russian versus American technology. MIT nuclear physicist Areg Danagoulian argues that a 1,000 MW reactor may be too large for Armenia’s grid, and could create new strategic and economic vulnerabilities.
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